Joyce McMillan: Time to lance the boil of anti-Scottish resentment

TO LONDON, this week, to find the city most entertainingly exercised by the key cultural, political and sporting question of the hour – namely, whether its inhabitants should support Andy Murray in the Men's Singles Championship at Wimbledon. In Scotland, of course, the mirror-image of this debate recurs with a gong-like regularity, every time England qualifies for some world sporting championship that Scotland fails to reach.

In England, though, the argument is being conducted with real intensity for what is perhaps the first time, as the big nation south of the Border begins to get its head round the idea that the Scots have not only asked for and got their own domestic ...